You know the feeling
Leading data is a lonely job. Your peers run functions they understand. You are asked to prove value, fight for budget, and change how a company works, usually without a single person beside you who has done it. This is a community of people who have. Connect with real peers, join a monthly forum, and lead alongside a facilitator who has sat in your seat.
Free to join. Create your account and you're in. For data leaders in the seat only, no consultants or vendors.
The loneliest seat in the org
A CFO has a room full of CFOs to call. A data leader usually has no one. The role is new, the mandate is fuzzy, and the pressure is real. When you hit the wall, there is rarely a peer who has hit the same wall and can tell you what actually worked.
No peer bench
You are the most senior data person in the building. The people who could sanity-check your next move do not work where you work.
Prove it, again
Every quarter you re-justify the function, the headcount, and the roadmap to people who measure success differently than you do.
Advice that fits
Generic leadership content does not touch the specifics of governance, adoption, or a stalled data initiative. You need people who live it.
What this is
This is not a Slack group with a thousand strangers or a conference you attend once a year. Start in the community, free to join and open to every in-seat data leader. When you want more, request a seat in a cohort: a small, closed circle anchored by a facilitated monthly forum where the same people show up for each other.
Inside a cohort: the monthly forum
Modeled on the peer forum used by top CEO groups. Before each session, every member submits a short, structured check-in. In the session, the cohort reads each other's real state and works the hard problems together. No pitching, no performance, just the truth and the group.
Your highs and lows this month, professional and personal
What is top of mind heading into the session
One ask of the group, so you never leave empty-handed
The community
Free to joinJoining is free and takes a couple of minutes. The community is the open layer, where you meet other in-seat data leaders, connect with them directly, ask questions, and find what you need between sessions.
A directory of in-seat data leaders you can actually reach. Find people by experience, connect, and message them one to one.
Ask the whole community a question and get answers from people who have solved it before.
Recordings, guides, and templates drawn from real engagements, plus the full podcast library. Practical material you can use Monday.
Roles and projects shared inside the community, whether you are hiring, building a bench, or exploring your next seat.
Your cohort
By request, limited seatsWhen the open community is not enough, step into a cohort: a small, closed circle of about ten data leaders that meets every month in a facilitated forum. This is the layer that takes real commitment, so seats are limited and I run every session personally.
The same small group of data leaders who show up for you every month. Closed, confidential, and the same faces over time.
A facilitated session built on a structured check-in, so the group works your real problems, not surface updates.
I lead every session myself. That is why cohorts stay small, and why the hour is worth showing up for.
Who belongs here
This room is for people who are currently leading a data or analytics function. Chief data officers, heads of data, VPs of analytics, the person who owns the mandate today. When everyone in the room carries the same weight, nobody is performing and the conversation gets real.
Currently own or lead a data or analytics function
On the hook for the strategy, the team, and the outcomes
Here as a peer, not to sell to one
One rule, and we mean it
No consultants, no vendors, no recruiters working the room. This is not a place to prospect data leaders. It is a place to be one.
If you are here to sell to the room instead of sit in it, we will give you the boot. No hard feelings. That boundary is the only reason the trust holds, so we protect it.
Who facilitates
I have spent my career as a data leader inside world-class organizations, and I know exactly how isolating the seat can be. You are expected to have the answers, drive the change, and carry the doubt, usually without a peer who has been there.
I facilitate these cohorts personally. That is why the group stays small. I want to know every member, run every session well, and make sure the hour you spend here is the most useful hour of your month.
If that is what you have been missing, come join us. It is free, it takes a couple of minutes, and you will find the peers you did not know you were allowed to have.
Taylor Culver
Founder, XenoDATA™
A taste of the room
One Version of the Truth is our podcast with the CEOs, founders, and data leaders who have made the hard calls. The same honest conversations you will have inside, in public first.
Kyle Winterbottom, Orbition Group
Orbition Group's Kyle Winterbottom on why CDOs get hired to fail, the data accountability gap, and why commer…
Jack Phillips, International Institute for Analytics
IIA CEO Jack Phillips on why AI has widened the gap between data supply and business demand, and what separat…
Kai Thapa, SunnyData
SunnyData CEO Kai Thapa on scaling to 200 employees in under 3 years, and why people, not technology, make or…
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